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American readers of Scottish moral philosophy were searching for more than intellectual stimulation or interpretive conclusions about morality. They were searching for moral instruction that was independent of theology, but supportive of religion; scientifically derived, and straightforwardly practicable.139 This earnest desire for moral improvemen
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Nietzsche's public audience was likely to be sympathetic to one of the main stands he took in his lectures. If we reduce the value of higher education to the material return on our financial investment, we will impoverish CC our culture and diminish ourselves.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche • Anti-Education
It’s so easy to say that we’re all one world and that there shouldn’t be anti-Semitism, there shouldn’t be racism — it’s so easy to be lovey-dovey and peacenik. But I say this without any qualifications: I’ve never experienced any of that (hatred). Never. So every time I’m making an argument that has anything to do with race or misogyny or anti-Sem
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Herbert Spencer, the eugenics movement’s founding intellectual.